If you are considering undertaking an HDR, we have a range of scholarships available. They can help cover living expenses and tuition fees.
Want to research your own idea?
You can apply for an HDR program anytime with your own proposal and you can also apply for a scholarship to support your research.
Research Training Program scholarship
The Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship provides financial support for high-quality research students. We hold multiple RTP scholarship rounds each year. Applications are only open and accepted during the specified periods.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Degree by Research scholarship
Open to Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Students undertaking a PhD or Master by Research.
Sustainable Urban Mobility Research Laboratory Partnership
PhD Scholarship - The Sustainable Urban Mobility research lab examines pathways towards low-carbon, resource-efficient, and inclusive mobility. The team develops data-driven models and tools to reduce the environmental impacts of passenger and urban freight transport.
How do Bayesian brains acquire priors?
PhD Scholarship - How do Bayesian brains acquire priors? Explore how the brain constructs perceptual experience from visual input, focusing on the role of Bayesian models in perception.
Office of National Intelligence Discovery Project: Political deepfake videos within the Australian context
PhD Scholarship - Office of National Intelligence Discovery Project: Political deepfake videos within the Australian context. Address an urgent need to determine who is more susceptible to deepfakes, and the individual human behavioural interventions needed to mitigate them.
Semiochemicals in Helminth parasite and host snail interaction
PhD Scholarship - Semiochemicals in Helminth parasite and host snail interaction, identify and characterise aquatic semiochemical attractants that drive host-finding behaviors in parasites and snails
Industrial coating lifetime prediction and asset management
PhD Scholarship - Combine multiple inspection methods such as visual, multispectral, spatial and electrical to deliver accurate and statistically sound estimates of coating residual life and asset damage, supporting more effective maintenance decisions and asset management strategies.
Machine vision for increasing safety in healthcare
PhD Scholarship - An applied research opportunity at the intersection of machine vision, AI, and health informatics, focused on developing and evaluating computer vision–based decision-support tools to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare systems.
Funded opportunities to work with industry
Access scholarships that support your research while tackling real-world industry challenges. Gain hands-on experience, build skills that matter to employers, and turn your innovative ideas into impactful solutions.
National Industry PhD Program
NIPHD program enables research students to pursue research that addresses industry challenges. They will develop the skills needed to turn university research into practical and commercial outcomes.
Industry-sponsored research scholarships
Industry partners can support research talent and drive innovation through an industry-funded research scholarship for PhD or Masters by Research students.
CSIRO Industry PhD program
The CSIRO Industry PhD (iPhD) Program is a nationally coordinated initiative designed to strengthen research translation and industry engagement across Australia’s innovation system.
HDR Scholarship Conditions
Learn more about the conditions applicable to HDR scholarships.